Loss of connection?

[Rik]

Ah.

[dudwell]

It has to be done via the CLI on a SpeedTouch 585. Open a command prompt, and type telnet, hit enter, then type o 192.168.1.254 and hit enter. You'll then have to enter your username and password - if you haven't set a password, enter Administrator as the username, hit enter, then hit enter again. Now you're in the CLI.

Now type the following, pressing enter after each line:

dns server route flush
dns server route add dns=208.67.222.222 metric=1 intf=Internet
dns server route add dns=208.67.220.220 metric=1 intf=Internet
saveall
exit

Thanks Rik, Sebby and Steve. I've done it in Windows and all works fine. Might try via the CLI when I'm feeling stronger

[Simon_idnet]

We found today that our nameservers were having trouble resolving IPv6 addresses and that this was affecting their IPv4 performance. We have now removed the IPv6 function from our Primary and Secondary nameservers which has restored their stability and has returned their performance to normal.
Simon

[Rik]

Thanks, Simon, great news for us and it must be a big relief for you to have tracked the problem down. Take the rest of the week off.

[g7pkf]

Just a ickle question, when is ipv6 being implemented.

Hope its long enough for the problem to be resolved.

I know im being awkward, wife keeps telling me the same.

[Rik]

There's plenty of time, Dean, and it has been working OK for a while, so it's just a matter or working out what this week's changes did to break it.

[Simon_idnet]

Just a ickle question, when is ipv6 being implemented.

Hope its long enough for the problem to be resolved.

I know im being awkward, wife keeps telling me the same.

We've implemented IPv6 across our network already (though it seems it might be wise to separate the DNS function onto separate nameservers). However, most of the rest of the Internet is not yet ready for real-time IPv6 deployment. It is expected that the IPv4 namespace will be fully exhausted within the next 5 years so the the switch will have to take place before then!
Simon

[davej99]

I read that BT do not support IPv6 on 21CN

"The new network touted '21CN' that allows consumers to get faster broadband using ADSL2+ does not support the IPv6 protocol .... "

[Rik]

Forward thinking by BT again, Dave.

[davej99]

Perhaps like that other bunch of merchant bankers, BT will ask for more of our dosh to give us what we thought we already had! 

[Rik]

More than likely.

[Tacitus]

@Simon_idnet:

Now you can go and get yourself a glass of something decent and watch the Wales/England game....   

[Rik]

He's had a hard enough week as it is, Tac. 

[Sebby]

[gyruss]

Really not sure who's problem that was, but just had yet another outage at around 8.45pm tonight.. rebooted router, and the internet light was a solid red.   same as last time this happened.

Only problem is this is happening a number of times now, so i'm wondering what the heck is up?

[Baz]

yeah same here except I just went and made a brew then it was back on 

[Moonshine]

Same here.

[Simon]

Same here.  Reported to IDNet.

[LesD]

The only access I lost was to IDNet sites. The IDNet Home page, IDNetters forum and IDNet Webmail. The BBC News pages all worked fine so I did not lose my line, I even managed a BBMax speedtest! I was reading a post on the forum sometime just before 9 PM and found I was stuck on that page the next one would not come up. This was when I started trying other sites. After brewing some tea the IDNet site were back but they were out for some number of minutes for me.   

[Niall]

Me too. The router was still connected, but I couldn't load any webpages and I got kicked out of an online game.

[Philip]

red light on my router, that was scary 

[Ann]

It was the opposite of the last downs for me.  Email wouldn't work and Yahoo Messenger shut down but the web seemed to work.  Usually Yahoo stays up but the web breaks.. a weird one.

[zappaDPJ]

My latency shot up from 10s to 1000s with some web pages taking literally minutes to resolve at around 8.45pm. I eventually rebooted my router which resulted in a solid red light. I've just got back on after contacting support who supplied me with a slightly different user name. I was told that BT have stopped forwarding .net for some reason.

So another day another outage and yet another wasted evening for me. 

[Ann]

I'm with .net and everything was fine this morning... ooer.. am I just waiting for it to break now?

[uxbod]

I saw high spikes again last night but then become good again ... Not sure if my link dropped though :-